Difference between revisions of "International Business Machines"

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IBM, short for International Business Machines is a company which has played a decisive role in the history of computing.

Some notable contributions by IBM to the world of computing:

System/360 Mainframe system

System/370 Mainframe system

SNA The networking protocol of the IBM Mainframes

IBM PC The IBM personal Computer

MCA Micro Channel Architecture

OS/2 IBM & Microsoft's failed sucessor to MS-DOS

SQL The SQL language popularized by IBM databases.

The old IBM had a song book, of various anthems for products and crushing their competition which at the time would have been NCR.

IBM also made famous DASD and other acronyms.

Perhaps the most famous of all IBM'ism is the "This page is intentionally left blank" pages scattered throughout their manuals.

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 '''IBM''', short for '''International Business Machines''' is a company which has played a decisive role in the history of computing.
+Some notable contributions by IBM to the world of computing:
 [[System/360]] Mainframe system
+[[System/370]] Mainframe system
+[[SNA]]  The networking protocol of the IBM Mainframes
 [[IBM PC]] The IBM personal Computer
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 [[MCA]] Micro Channel Architecture
-[[OS/2]]
+[[OS/2]] IBM & Microsoft's failed sucessor to [[MS-DOS]]
+[[SQL]]  The SQL language popularized by IBM databases.
+== Lore ==
+The old IBM had a song book, of various anthems for products and crushing their competition which at the time would have been [[NCR]].
+IBM also made famous [[DASD]] and other acronyms.
+Perhaps the most famous of all IBM'ism is the "This page is intentionally left blank" pages scattered throughout their manuals.
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